Door-guide for sectional bookcases.



v F. N. WEIS & G. P. HEHLE. DOOR GUIDE FOR SEGTIONAL BOOKGASES.

.APPLIOATION FILED DBO. 7 1908.

Patented July 20, 1909.

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UNITED STATES PATENT @hl llil FRANK N. WEIS AND CHARLES I IIEHLE, OFMONROE, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNORS TO THE WEIS MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OFMONROE, MICHIGAN, A CORPORATION OF MICHIGAN.

DOOR-GUIDE FOR SEOTIONAL BOOKCASES.

liipecification of Letters Patent.

Application filed December 7, 1908.

Patented July 20, 1909.

Serial No. 466,250.

To all whom may concern:

Be it known that we, FRANK ll. ine and CHARLES F. lInHLn, (1113126115?of the United States, residing Monroe, in the county of Monroe and Stateof Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inDoor-Guides for Sectional Bookcases; and we do declare the following tobe a full, clear, and exact description of the in vention, such as willenable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and usethe same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to theletters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part ofthis specification.

In the use of sectional bookcases having doors which swing upon theirupper horizontal ed 'e and which slip into a recess in the top of thecase, a familiar difficulty en countered is that the doors when forcedcdgewise hack into the recess bind and stick, causing a loss of time aswell as annoyance.

Our invention relates to and its object is to provide means forovercoming the difiiculties here indicated, and, more particularly, tofurnish a novel and useful toggle which furnishes a pivot upon which thedoor may be swung from vertical to horizontal position, and -vice-versa,and which furnishes a yielding guide which invariably causes the door torun true and smoothly and without binding. "We attain these objects bymeans of the devices and arrangement of parts hereinafter described andshown, and illustrated in the accompanying drawing in which,

Figure 1 is a top-plan view of a bookcase section provided with ourdevice with the door hereinafter referred to in vertical closedposition, the dotted lines indicating the position of the togglehereinafter referred to when the door is raised and slipped back intoits recess; Fig. 2, a front elevation of a portion of twobookcase-sections in assembled relation showing a front-edge view of ourdevice with the door raised and slipped back into its recess, and Fig.3, a top-plan view of a modified form of our toggle with the door of thebookcase in ver tical closed position, the dotted lines representing theposition of the toggle-bars hereinafter referred to, when the door israised and slipped horizontally back into its recess.

Like parts are represented by corresponding characters throughout thedrawings.

In the drawings, 1--1 are the ends, 2 the bottom, and 3 the top of abookcase section. The top of the section is lower than the upper marginof the sides and ends so that when one section is set upon anotherthere'is a thin rectangular recess 01' pocket 4 between the top of onesection and the bottom of the other.

5 is a door which fits into the front opening of the bookcase section,the top of the door being flush with the upper edge of the section.

6-6 are screw-eyes screwed into the back of the door near its uppermargin and near its ends.

7-? are two bars of equal length having red need ends, as at 8, whichare slipped into and which are adapted to slide lengthwise in the eyes(3. The opposite ends of these two bars are pivotally connected togetherand also to the top of the section, midway of its length and near itscenter, as at 9.

10 is a short bar pivoted at one end, to the top of thebookcase-section, as at 11, and at its other end pivotally connected, asat 12, to the meeting ends of the pair of divergent bars 13, theopposite ends of which are pivotally connected, as at 14:, to the bars 7at equi-distant intervals from the pivot 9.

When the bottom of the door is swung outwardly and upwardly the parts6-8 form pivots or hinges upon which the door may be swung intohorizontal position. Now the door may be slipped edgewise into thepocket or recess 4;. During this operation the bars 7, which are ofexactly the same radius, move at their extremities through exactly thesame are and at exactly the same speed, being held in constant relationto each other by their pivot 9 and the toggle 10-13-13. It will be seen,therefore, that the ends of the door must move horizontally exactlyparallel with the ends of the bookcase-section, and that thus the doordoes not cramp or bind in its movement into and out of the pocket orrecess l. As will now be well understood without further explanation,when the door is raised and pressed into its recess the toggle 7 -10" 13will have assumed the position indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 1.

our device which is exactly the same as that above described save thatthe meeting extremities of the bars 7 are extended beyond their pivotalpoint 9, as at 9 and that the bars 13 are connected to these projectingextremities, as at 14 The operation of this modification of our deviceis the same as above described, the position of the toggle, when thedoor is raised and slipped into its recess, being indicated by thedotted lines in Fig. 3.

Having described our invention, what we claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent is,

1. In a device of the described character, a bookcase section having adoor adapted to swing outwardly and upwardly from its bottom, a pair ofcorresponding bars pivotally connected near one end to the top of thebook case section and pivotally and slidably c011- nected near theirother ends with opposite ends of the door near its upper margin, a pairof corresponding bars pivotally connected at one end with the pairofbars first mentioned and at their other ends pivotally connectedtogether, and another bar pivot ally connected at one end to the top ofthe bookcase section and at its other end pivotally connected with themeeting ends of the second mentioned pair of bars.

2. In a device of the described character, a bookcase section, a doortherefor adapted to swing outwardly and upwardly from its bottom,therebeing a recess at the top of the section for the horizontal reception ofthe door,eyes secured near the upper edge of the door and near itsopposite ends, a short bar pivoted at one end to the top of the section,a pair of equal converging bars at their converging ends pivotallyconnected together and to the free end of the short bar, and anotherpair of equal bars pivotally connected together and to the top of thesection and pivotally connected with the, diverging ends of the otherpair of bars and having reduced end-portions slidably and revolublyengaged with said eyes.

In testimony whereof we afliX our signatures in presence of twowitnesses.

FRANK N. VVEIS. CHAS. F. HEHLE.

Vitnesses HARRY C. VVEIs. HARRY C. VVELs.

